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Swombat.com is no longer actively maintained, but all the posts here are still available for your use. The original objective was to regularly summarise and comment on the best articles for founders each day, as well as occasionally post our my own thoughts and advice, so that you could read the most useful articles while focusing on building your own startup. As most of the articles in the founders library were selected to be "evergreens", I hope you still find them useful!

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Andy Swan tells an insightful tale of how constraints can help drive innovation.

The tricky thing, of course, is that it needs to be just the right constraint... but it is a well-known fact amongst "commercial artists", such as architects, and web developers alike, that "constraints are liberating". Remove all constrains, for example by giving a building an unlimited budget, and you generally create a monstrosity.

Luckily for us entrepreneurs, most startups have draconian constraints. Still, it can be a useful thought experiment to imagine some extra constraints (particularly time constraints) and see what comes out.